[AccessD] How do I Grab the picture from the web page

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Apr 22 07:44:50 CDT 2011


I am using the Microsoft web control to navigate to web pages and parse out information for my 
inmate checkout program.  Part of the information is a picture that I have to click on to view.  I 
am a visual kinda guy so it would be really nice if I could get the picture and store it locally so 
that I could see the picture of the guy without having to go click on that link every time as I 
scroll through the records.

The first question is, can I click buttons in the web page using this web control?  The following is 
what I assume to be button code:

	<table width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5">
		<tr align="center">
			<td colspan="6" align="center">
				<a href="pagelistoffendersearchresults.do?method=list&page=1&searchOffenderId=1119894" 
class="actionbutton">Back To Search Results</a>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</table><br>


The second question is, how can I extract the picture.  The following is what I assume to be the 
picture control.

							<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="innerdisplaytable">
								<tr>

									<td bgcolor="#FFFACD" colspan="2"><img class="spacertop" src="images/spacertbl.gif" 
width="1" height="2" alt=""/></td>
								</tr>
								<tr>
									<td bgcolor="#999999" colspan="2"><img class="spacerbottom" src="images/spacertbl.gif" 
width="1" height="1" alt=""/></td>
								</tr>
								<tr>
									<td>
										<table class="picturediv">
											<tr>

												<td>
													<table class="picturetable">
														<td>
															<a href="#" class="photolink" id="dopobscurelink" 
onClick="javascript:unobscure('dopobscurelink','dopPicture','viewpicture.do?method=view&showDate=N&pictureType=I&offenderID=1119894','viewdetailbutton');return 
false;"><img align="center" id="dopPicture" src="images/silhouette.gif" /></a>
														</td>
													</table>
												</td>
											</tr>
										</table>

									</td>
									<td>


Sorry for all of the extra "stuff" but not being a web kinda guy I don't really know what is 
necessary and what is fluff.

I manage to grab the "tables" collection and iterate through the tables looking inside each for 
specific stuff to pull data out into my application.  What I don't know is whether I can add another 
of these web page controls and feed it just a specific part of the whole to get the picture, or 
whether I can click a button, or how to g about getting this picture.

Can anyone help me with this?

-- 
John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com



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